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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It's just a toe in the water before the big plunge, Raider.
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Agreed, but for some strange reason, there are some people who would like Sky, who have single-handedly raised the cost of Premiership football to this astronomical level, to retain the exclusive rights to the majority of rights to screen these football matches.
I think that ultimately the new players will forge a course that will see a reduction in these obscene level of charges to football supporters.
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Not at all - the level of payments increased astronomically when the PL were forced to sell packages of rights with no 1 broadcaster allowed them all. This is when sky had to substantially increase their bids.
Without this intervention (in the guise of competition to benefit the customer) the payments would not have risen so high as any newcomer would have had to outbid sky for all the rights rather than 1 or 2 packages - this has proven detrimental to the customer as they have ended up paying significantly more to view all broadcast games.
I would not be surprised if PL tried to set up their own streaming service - however would clubs throw away all that guaranteed income for a share of a hypothetical amount - bearing in mind the cost of processing the payments, securing content and advertising would fall on them rather than sky/BT.
I suspect we will never get to see the viewing figures per match for these 2 streamed packages.